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HEALTH DEPARTMENT.

Expenses and Salaries,

1871-72.

$338,798 06

Income, 1871-72, $47,358 15; 1870-71, $48,926 58.

POLICE DEPARTMENT.

1870-71.

$298,892 87

Expenses and Salaries,

1871-72.

$575,324 28

Income, 1871-72, $9,385 61; 1870-71, $11,525 78.

PUBLIC Buildings.

1871-72.

1870-71.

$578,344 96

1870-71.

Expenses and Salaries (see Engine

Houses),

$62,583 79

$68,315 06

Income, 1871-72, $940; 1870–71, $25,273 20.

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Income, 1871-72, $107,444 40; 1870-71, $114,179 21.

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Care of Primary School-houses; re- 260,895 72

pairs on do., and fuel,

88,770 49

Amounts carried forward,

$1,147,836 19 $1,068,783 46

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Income, from all sources, 1871-72, $26,859 98; 1870–71,

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Income from all the above departments, 1871-72, $204,121 02; 1870-71, $167,776 47.

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Income, 1871–72, $841;972 82; 1870–71, $789,123 37.

The assessment of taxes to defray the expenses of the CITY OF BOSTON AND COUNTY OF SUFFOLK for the financial year 1871-72, less the revenue to be received from other sources; also to pay the State Tax levied on the City of Boston, 1871, was

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Tax Payments into the City Treasury to April 30,

$8,148,864 00

1872,

$7,160,241 14

Received from the State on account of Bank Tax,

217,193 22

Abatements,

87,852 95

Outstanding,

683,576 69

$8,148,864 00

The Cochituate Water Board having, at the request of the City Council, reported to that body that, in their opinion, Lake Cochituate would not be sufficient to supply the city

with water for any great length of time, and their belief that it would be for the interest of the city to ascertain where some additional supply could be obtained, an order was passed by the City Council, Oct. 9th, 1871, authorizing said Board to make surveys and obtain such information on the subject as would lead to immediate action, and appropriating $10,000 for that object. The Cochituate Water Board at once proceeded to act under said order, and appointed Joseph P. Davis, engineer, to make the required surveys.

In accordance with an order passed by the City Council, approved Dec. 12, 1871, His Honor, Mayor Gaston, petitioned the General Court of Massachusetts of 1872 for authority to obtain a new supply of water, which authority was granted by an act of said General Court, approved April 8, 1872, authorizing the taking of water from Farm Pond and Sudbury River in the town of Framingham. The analysis of the water in Sudbury River and Farm Pond shows it to be of about the same quality as that in the lake. On account of the low stage of the water in the lake, temporary works have been commenced for filling it from the pond and river. The outlet from Farm Pond, a small brook, enters the Sudbury River. The river will be dammed at this point, raising the water in the river two feet above the present high-water mark in the pond, reversing the current of the brook, making it the channel from the river to the pond. On the other side of the pond a ditch nine feet wide and six feet deep is being excavated to a brook about a quarter of a mile distant. This brook flows into the northern part of Lake Cochituate, and will be made of the same width and depth as the ditch entering it. The capacity of this temporary channel will be some thirty million gallons per day. The entire work, which is but temporary, will be completed some time in the month of June. Work on the permanent new water works, which will be on a magnificent scale, will begin immediately on the com

pletion of the temporary facilities, and have an average capacity of forty million gallons per day.

The Water Works revenue received during the financial year 1871-72 has, for the first time, more than paid the running expenses of the works and the interest and premium on the debt incurred for their construction. The total revenue received was $841,972.82; total current expenses, $826,263.33. Surplus, $15,709.49. The total expenditures during the year on account of the Water Works was $1,224,396.59. The new supply works will call for a large additional outlay, the first instalment of which has already been authorized, amounting to $110,000. With this new source added to that of the old, our citizens will be secured, for many years to come, with that great blessing, a liberal supply of pure

water.

A department of Printing has been established by the City Council by ordinance, with a Superintendent who is required to be a practical printer, well versed in the various branches of the arts of printing and bookbinding, who has charge of all the printing executed for the city, purchasing of paper for printing and of the stationery required for the several departments of the government. The ordinance provides that the said Superintendent of Printing shall be appointed by the Mayor, and confirmed by the Committee on Printing of the City Council, and hold office for three years and until his successor is appointed or he is removed. He is required to give bonds in the sum of $5,000, for the faithful performance of the duties imposed upon him. He certifies to the correctness of all the bills of his department, and transmits them to the Committee on Printing for their approval. The present incumbent of this office is George Coolidge, who entered upon the discharge of his duties August 1, 1871, and the contractors for printing are Rockwell & Churchill.

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